-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:06:22 -0400 From: Zahi Damuni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al-Awda News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AL-AWDA] [cpthebron] Occupation Expanded: Abu Sneineh invaded by Israeli Forces
From: "CPT Hebron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:52 PM Occupation Expanded: Abu Sneineh invaded by Israeli Forces Friday, October 5, 2001 By Anita Fast In the early hours of the morning, before the sun had even risen above the Hebron hills, a series of explosions split the night sky. Helicopters circled. Tanks rumbled down the streets. The walls shook. In the distance, from the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Sneineh, the deep roar of walls collapsing in on themselves echoed across the Old City. When morning arrived, and people started turning on their televisions and radios, or saw the Israeli flags waving from places where there once had been none, the events of the night before became clear. The Israeli military had occupied Abu Sneineh, previously a PA-controlled Hebron neighborhood, killing six Palestinians and wounding at least seventy others. Hospitals were crowded with the wounded. A number of homes were demolished, others were taken over by soldiers to provide lookout and shooting posts for the Israeli army. At least twenty tanks did the job. Christian Peacemaker Team members, Greg Rollins, LeAnne Clausen, and I walked up into the Abu Sneineh neighborhood. We followed the ruts cut into the road by the tanks several hours earlier, passing by squashed cars and crumbled walls which had been destroyed as the tank made its way through the narrow streets, to a boys' school with a new Israeli flag on its roof. A tank sat in the schoolyard, and young boys gathered across the empty lot throwing stones. Several women approached us and said that two young men had been taken from their home this morning and were being held in the school. They wanted to know what they should do. Could we help? Could we talk with the soldiers and at least find out if the boys were alive? We approached the school and several soldiers stopped us outside the doorway. They were polite, but refused to allow us to see those who they kept inside. We inquired as to when the Palestinians would be released. In a few hours, we were told. They assured us the Palestinians were fine. "We aren't terrorists, they won't be tortured," said one soldier. Our continued pleas to allow us to see the young men so that we could assure their family that they were fine, fell on deaf ears. "This is a closed military zone", we were told, and sent away. After calling a few people who could contact the appropriate channels to pressure the Hebron commander to let the young men go, we went on up the hill towards another house now occupied by soldiers. It, too, had a tank in the front yard. The family had been cleared out, and sat on the porch of the neighbor's home. Another home, just behind the one occupied, lay in rubble. "It blocked the view of the soldiers", said a passer-by. "They want to be able to see clearly the whole area". 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